I've had pretty good luck with SW toys at ROSS, but totally struck out on this Hobbit thing. Would have been nice, we have 3 that are convenient to my work/home locations. But I've given up looking at this point.

All Hobbit stuff marked down to a super cheap $1.99 at my local Kmart... I bought the three Orcs on the dog beast things they had left. Now my son and I have a great army... thought I did use a couple of the Orcs for customs.

Just as a heads up, I had some of the next wave(s) of figures (both the 5 packs and single figures) on preorder through BBTS, and they sent me an e-mail today saying they wouldn't be able to fulfill these orders because they were informed these had become exclusive to another etailer. Not sure who, or if there will be an "exclusive online window" like there was last time around, but I just thought I'd pass things along. I'd really like to finish out the 3 3/4" scale dwarfs, if nothing else. I wonder if they'll be "online only" or appear at TRU again. They never did hit Targets here, and only one of our Wal-Marts had only the single figures last time around.

I guess I'm not surprised to see fewer places picking these up now. The first wave of figures ended up on mass clearance at Kmart, didn't move too well at TRU, and I never saw evidence of a Wal-Mart or Target carrying them in my area.

I was practically begging for an excuse to jump into this line. But like Chewie, these NEVER made it to a reasonably priced Walmart or Target around here. Nor to either of our remaining K-Marts. I would have gone nuts on clearance Hobbit figs. Guess it wasn't meant to be.

Our TRU still has a buttload of these too, and based on their stubborn refusal to lower the price, they will be collecting dust for awhile. They've still got Pirates of the Carribean figures on the pegs for chrissakes!